CPS@Google: Creating Personal Groups & Mailing Lists


Login to your CPS@Google Email by going to http://google.cps.edu

To view various "How To's" using CPS@Google go to this link: http://google-cps.blogspot.com

Creating contacts

You can use contact groups to organize your contacts and as personal mailing lists—to send email messages or meeting invitations to groups of people you contact frequently, without having to enter each of their email addresses individually.



To add a new contact, follow these steps:

  1. Open your Contacts list by clicking Gmail in the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts. If you are a Google Apps user, click Mail and thenContacts. Contacts are also available at www.google.com/contacts.
    Gmail drop-down
    Gmail drop-down
  2. Click the New Contact button in the top-left corner.
  3. Enter your contact's information in the appropriate fields. Any information you add will save automatically.

Editing contacts


To edit or delete contacts, you'll need to open your Contacts list.

Open your Contacts list

Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts. If you are a Google Apps user, click Mail and then Contacts.
Gmail drop-down
Gmail drop-down

Contacts are also available at www.google.com/contacts.

Edit contact information

  1. Find and click the name of the contact in the Contacts list.
  2. Make any changes you’d like to make.
  3. Exit the editing field to save automatically or click Save now in the upper right hand corner.

Add contact to contact groups

  1. Select the contact in the Contacts list.
  2. Click the Groups button
    Groups icon
    Groups icon
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  3. Select the group you'd like to add the contact to, or select Create new to create a new group.

Remove contact from contact groups

  1. Select the contact in the Contacts list.
  2. Click the Groups button
    Groups icon
    Groups icon
    .
  3. Select the group you'd like to remove the contact from (boxes will be checked next to the groups that contact is already in).

Delete contact

  1. Select the contact in the Contacts list.
  2. Click More, then click Delete contact.

Merging contacts


If you have duplicate contacts, there are two ways you can fix this problem: merge your contacts manually, or have the system find and merge contacts automatically, as well as duplicate data within contacts.
To merge two or more contacts manually:

  1. Select the contacts you'd like to merge from your contacts list.
  2. Click the More drop-down menu, and select Merge contacts.
  3. Make any edits to the suggested solution (if you'd like to change anything).
  4. Click Save at the top of the page.
To find and fix all of your duplicate data at once, use the following instructions:
  1. Open the Contact Manager.
  2. Click the More drop-down menu, select Find and merge duplicates.
  3. We'll display the names of the contacts with duplicate data. If an entry has only one contact, then the contact itself has duplicate data (repeated phone numbers, emails, etc.) If an entry has two or more contacts, be sure to check whether these are duplicate contacts; many people have similar names. You can expand them by clicking details next to each one and unchecking any that you don't want to fix.
  4. When you're ready, click Merge at the top of the list.

Creating contact groups



Create a contact group




1. Open your Contact Manager. In the upper-left corner of your CPS mail window, click the arrow by Mail and then click Contacts.

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2. Click New Group in the left pane of the Contact manager.

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3. Enter the name of the group and click OK.


4. In My Contacts, select the contacts you want to add to the group. For example:

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5. Click the Groups icon at the top of the Contact Manager...

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6. Select the group to which you want to add the contacts:



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The new group is created (in this case, “Sunhouse Project Team”), and can be found in the left pane of the Contact Manager page.

Managing contact groups

To edit the contact group name:
  1. Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts.
  2. Select the group you'd like to edit along the left side of the page.
  3. Click More and select Rename group.
  4. Enter the new name and click OK.
To add contacts to a contact group:
  1. Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts.
  2. Select the contacts in the Contacts list.
  3. Click the Groups button external image mail_group_dropdown.png.
  4. Select the name of the groups you'd like to add these contacts to, or selectCreate new to create a new group.
To remove contacts from a contact group:
  1. Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts.
  2. Select the contact in the Contacts list.
  3. Click the Groups button external image mail_group_dropdown.png.
  4. Deselect the checkbox of any groups you'd like to remove these contacts from.
To delete a contact group:
  1. Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts.
  2. Select the contact group from the groups list.
  3. Select Delete group from the More drop-down menu at the top of the page.
  4. Click OK.
This will delete the group but not the actual contacts themselves. Those will remain in your Contacts list.